Popular iOS developer and hacker MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team has recently tweeted what many people have been waiting to see: proof of an iPhone 4S jailbroken on iOS 5. His tweet did mention that this is a very early version of the jailbreak and it is far from a public release. Furthermore, no ETAs have been given as of right now so we will have to continue to be patient.

This does give us some hope though that the iPhone 4S jailbreak will probably be released sometime over the next few weeks. At the very least, we know it has been achieved and there is progress being made to have it packaged for a public release. It has currently not been confirmed whether the method was a tethered or untethered jailbreak but I am sure for the many iPhone 4S users, having any form of a jailbreak beats having none at all. It is also possible that the same exploit might be usable on the iPad 2 (which also runs on the same A5 chip) but there has been no mention of that either.

If your on a tethered jailbreak and your out and about and happen to install something from cydia that requires a "reboot device" to prevent yourself from being screwed either just hit the home button and exit cydia and wait till you get home, or you can use sbsettings to respring and you will be able to get back into cydia without rebooting the device. Just a nice piece of info if you did not already know this....

Mine gets stuck on Respring and holding the power and home button for 10-15 seconds reboots but requires just boot for JB stuff to work again

It's not going to happen for months if ever.
The dev team has no idea how to jailbreak or unlock the new apple firmwares and hardware.
Ppl are still waiting for a new baseband unlock for over a year.
The 4s jailbreak will probably be out when the iPhone 5 is released

It's not going to happen for months if ever.
The dev team has no idea how to jailbreak or unlock the new apple firmwares and hardware.
Ppl are still waiting for a new baseband unlock for over a year.
The 4s jailbreak will probably be out when the iPhone 5 is released

Obviously you're wrong on the jailbreaking part of your post, considering your posting on a topic about proof of an upcoming jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad2.

Unlocking is a bit of a challenge I'll agree, since they have to find usable exploits in the baseband. That's not easy to do with a small-ish group like the Dev Team and the time/resources/capital they have available. Also, most countries (including the US) now offer officially unlocked devices or official unlocking services, so the unlocking exploits are becoming less necessary unless you bought the phone cheap/contract/etc. Unfortunate, but true.